Comparative effectiveness research (CER) seeks to assist consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions to improve health care at both the individual and population ...

Clinical trials that are embedded into usual care have the potential to yield outcomes of great relevance to the institutions where they are performed and at the same time to yield information that ...

There is an increasing need for reliable information on the relative value of medical interventions to assist decision making on both the individual and public health levels; addressing this need is ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Tetsuya Muramoto from the Faculty of Science, Toho University, has established a ...

A new center may provide evidence for improving care, but could discourage coverage of treatments. There is great optimism throughout the healthcare community that comparative-effectiveness research ...

Fully revised and updated, Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process 5th edition bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research. For this 5th edition, Beth Perry, Urban Institute ...